Vigor, Bishop of Bayeux, c.537Commemoration
4 November

Vigor was born at Artois in northern France. Inspired to become a
priest he ran away to Ravière near Bayeux and preached and
instructed the people. Once ordained he extended the range of his
missionary work and was made Bishop of Bayeux in 513. It is told that
he cast down a stone idol near the city and built a church there
instead. He died on 1 November c.537 and was buried at the monastery he had
built near Bayeux (St Vigor le Grand). His body was later sold to the
abbot of St-Riquier. Two or three churches in England were dedicated
to him by the Normans, including the church at Fulbourn.